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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/3] Implement vdpasim suspend operation
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 03:53:50PM +0200, Eugenio P?rez wrote:
> Implement suspend operation for vdpa_sim devices, so vhost-vdpa will offer
> that backend feature and userspace can effectively suspend the device.
> 
> This is a must before getting virtqueue indexes (base) for live migration,
> since the device could modify them after userland gets them. There are
> individual ways to perform that action for some devices
> (VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND, VHOST_VSOCK_SET_RUNNING, ...) but there was no
> way to perform it for any vhost device (and, in particular, vhost-vdpa).
> 
> After a successful return of ioctl the device must not process more virtqueue
> descriptors. The device can answer to read or writes of config fields as if it
> were not suspended. In particular, writing to "queue_enable" with a value of 1
> will not make the device start processing virtqueue buffers.
> 
> In the future, we will provide features similar to
> VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD so the device can save pending operations.
> 
> Applied on top of vhost branch.
> 
> Comments are welcome.
> 
> v8:
> * v7 but incremental from vhost instead of isolated.

Now I'm lost. incremental to what? Does the vhost branch now
have the correct bits?

> v7:
> * Remove ioctl leftover argument and update doc accordingly.
> 
> v6:
> * Remove the resume operation, making the ioctl simpler. We can always add
>   another ioctl for VM_STOP/VM_RESUME operation later.
> * s/stop/suspend/ to differentiate more from reset.
> * Clarify scope of the suspend operation.
> 
> v5:
> * s/not stop/resume/ in doc.
> 
> v4:
> * Replace VHOST_STOP to VHOST_VDPA_STOP in vhost ioctl switch case too.
> 
> v3:
> * s/VHOST_STOP/VHOST_VDPA_STOP/
> * Add documentation and requirements of the ioctl above its definition.
> 
> v2:
> * Replace raw _F_STOP with BIT_ULL(_F_STOP).
> * Fix obtaining of stop ioctl arg (it was not obtained but written).
> * Add stop to vdpa_sim_blk.
> 
> [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git
> 
> Eugenio P?rez (3):
>   vdpa: delete unreachable branch on vdpasim_suspend
>   vdpa: Remove wrong doc of VHOST_VDPA_SUSPEND ioctl
>   vhost: Remove invalid parameter of VHOST_VDPA_SUSPEND ioctl
> 
>  drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c |  7 -------
>  include/linux/vdpa.h             |  2 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/vhost.h       | 17 ++++++-----------
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>